Retirement for disability or length of service; benefit payments

A. The board shall retire from service in the police department any member of the department found by a majority vote of the board to have acquired a permanent or temporary physical or mental disability while in the performance of his duties, as determined by the report of the department physician, and shall place the retired member on the pension or relief roll. B. Upon written request any member of the department who has performed twenty years of service in the department, without regard to the age at which the member may have initially been appointed to the police department, also shall be retired and placed under pension or relief roll. In addition, any member of the department who has performed at least eighteen consecutive years of service in the department and has reached sixty-five years of age, upon his application and request therefor, shall be eligible for retirement and be placed on the pension or relief roll. The amount of the pension or relief shall be two-thirds of the highest average monthly salary for any continuous twelve month period of time worked prior to retirement, but shall not be less than one hundred dollars per month. C. Pensions or relief provided for by this Section shall be paid in monthly installments to persons entitled thereto, except that in the case of any mentally incapacitated member, the pension or relief shall be paid monthly to his legal representative. Amended by Acts 1954, No. 245, §1; Acts 1954, No. 416, §1; Acts 1956, No. 137, §1; Acts 1962, No. 236, §1; Acts 1966, No. 148, §1; Acts 1972, No. 495, §1; Acts 1974, No. 219, §2; Acts 1976, No. 607, §1; Redesignated from R.S. 33:2234(A), (B), and (D) by Acts 1991, No. 74, §3, eff. June 25, 1991; Acts 2014, No. 811, §4, eff. June 23, 2014. NOTE: Acts 2014, No. 811 changed terminology referring to persons with disabilities throughout the La. Revised Statutes and codes of law, and included a listing of terms that were deleted and their respective successor terms (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §36). The Act provides that it is not the intent of the legislature that changes in terminology effected therein alter or affect in any way the substance, interpretation, or application of any law or administrative rule; further provides that nothing in the Act shall be construed to expand or diminish any right of or benefit for any person provided by any law or administrative rule (See Acts 2014, No. 811, §35(C) and (D)).